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Aside from being a physical monument to Singapore’s economic might, the Marina Bay Sands towers are symbols of Asian excellence — so much so that it forms a prominent profile in Crazy Rich Asians.
They’re also an iconic part of the city’s skyline that tourists from all over come to take pictures of. But why settle for run-of-the-mill poses when you can actually resemble the towers?
Asian-Australian visitor Andrew Chen recently rounded up his buddies for a viral post on the Subtle Asian Traits Facebook page: a “non-traditional” shot of them with MBS in the background.
What’s a “non-traditional” shot, you ask? It’s the three of them lifting up a dude aloft, much like the three towers holding up the cantilevered platform of Marina Bay Sands.
Yeah, it’s silly — but members of Subtle Asian Traits seem to be enamoured by the stunt.
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The man didn’t stop driving when a woman blocked his way, so she hopped onto the bonnet of his Mercedes Benz.
The sight on Friday (Jan 10) afternoon surprised other motorists on the road who recorded the incident on their mobile phones and dashboard cameras.
In one of the clips circulating on social media, the woman was seen stepping in front of a car that had pulled to a stop on the leftmost lane along Rochor Road.
Despite his warning honk, the woman continued to stand in the driver’s way and banged on the bonnet to ask him to stop.
When she was pushed backwards as he drove on at a slow speed, she decided to hop onto the car’s bonnet.
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Before letting your missile-equipped unmanned aircraft (UA) take flight these days, be sure to remember pasting a registration label on its chassis first!
Whether you’re out to execute targeted drone strikes or capture some sweet landscape footage, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) would like to remind you that any UA that weighs above 250 grams has to be registered before it can be operated.
This, after the government passed the Air Navigation (Amendment) Bill last year, which went into practice on Jan 2. It’s a pretty easy process — drone owners would simply have to register online and purchase a registration label, which would need to be permanently affixed onto their machines.
To make things even easier, CAAS even posted detailed, graphic instructions on how to do so, including areas where the QR code stickers should and should not be pasted.
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SINGAPORE – The Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) launched an online petrol pump price comparison website on Monday (Jan 13).
While there are already other such guides in the market, Fuel Kaki at https://fuelkaki.sg/ is the first to be interactive, allowing users to compare actual spending across brands.
It provides information in a more legible format and is more user-friendly than other similar portals. It also promises to offer more timely updates.
Its strongest proposition is that it can calculate the effective price a consumer pays based on ongoing promotions and methods of payment, such as with credit cards or fuel cards.
Mr Melvin Yong, chairman of Case’s consumer empowerment task force, said on Monday that while pump prices were generally transparent, the effective prices motorists eventually pay could differ widely because of various card-based or loyalty-linked promotions.
He said this initiative – which followed another launched in September called Price Kaki, comparing grocery and food prices – is “all about information availability”.
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SINGAPORE – Students who sat last year’s O-level examinations set a new record, with 85.2 per cent of the cohort attaining five or more passes.
This is up from 84.8 per cent in 2018, which was Singapore’s best showing at the national exam in at least three decades.
The record before that was 84.3 per cent, in 2016.
The Ministry of Education (MOE) and Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board (SEAB) said on Monday (Jan 13) that of the 24,409 candidates last year, 99.9 per cent passed their O levels – which means they passed at least one subject – and 96.5 per cent passed at least three.
This is comparable to the performance of the 26,750-strong cohort in 2018, the MOE said.
An SEAB spokesman told The Straits Times that another 1,262 private candidates sat the O-level exams last year, of which 89.5 per cent passed and were awarded certificates.
Students who wish to apply for admission to junior colleges, Millennia Institute, polytechnics and the Institute of Technical Education may do so via the Joint Admissions Exercise (JAE) using their O-level results.
JAE registration is open from 3pm on Monday to 4pm on Friday.
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Stomp contributor Vince was elated to learn that he had struck the first prize in Wednesday’s (Jan 8) 4D draw — only to realise that his winning betting slips had gone missing.
Vince said he made a $34 bet for ‘0419’ at a Singapore Pools outlet in town at around 5.48pm and received two 4D tickets.
He shared with Stomp a screenshot from CCTV footage that showed him placing the bet in the shop.
Vince recounted: “I went to another Singapore Pools outlet that was within walking distance for horse-racing after that.
“At around 7pm, I heard someone exclaiming that 0149 had won the first prize.
“I took out my stack of betting slips from my wallet to check, and confirmed that I still had the two winning tickets.
“The staff there advised me to write my IC number and name on the back of the tickets in case I lost them, so I did.
“After the horse races, I checked my wallet again, only to realise that the two winning tickets were gone from my stack!”
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A Choa Chu Kang resident was touched when she saw her 3-year-old neighbour offering a bag of goodies to SembCorp workers at about 11am on Friday (Jan 10).
Stomp contributor Suri contributed a video of what she saw and said: “Every day without fail, I would see the boy go downstairs with his aunty to say ‘hi’ to these SembCorp workers.
“We’ve been neighbours here at Block 758 Choa Chu Kang North 5 for about eight years and I noticed them doing this about six months ago.”
Suri told Stomp: “On this particular day, before they went downstairs, I heard the boy crying.
“I went to ask his aunty what happened and found out that he was actually sick for the past one week, so he wasn’t able to go say ‘hi’ to the SembCorp workers.
“The boy also wanted to give some bread to the men.
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At wit’s ends, a fight broke out between a woman and her neighbour to the point where flower pots were thrown in the process.
The straw the broke the camel’s back was her karung guni neighbour’s decision to use the common lift landing to store her excess items.
The incident occurred on Thursday (Jan 9) afternoon at Block 31, Toa Payoh Lor 5.
Shin Min Daily News received a tip-off from a resident that two of their female neighbours had gotten into a physical fight and were causing loud noises.
“When I stuck my head out, I saw flower pots that were thrown downstairs. The police were cordoning off that area for investigations.”
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SINGAPORE: Towers built from old shipping containers, farms and theme parks were some of the ideas proposed to redevelop the Pasir Panjang Power District, as part of the Government’s plans to transform the Greater Southern Waterfront.
An exhibition launched on Monday (Jan 13) showcased proposals from the ‘Power-Up Pasir Panjang’ competition, which invited people to imagine the district in the next 15 to 20 years.
This redevelopment is the first step to transform the Greater Southern Waterfront, said Minister for National Development Lawrence Wong.
Announced in August by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, the Greater Southern Waterfront project will convert 30km of Singapore’s southern coastline into a residential, recreation and working space.
Out of 79 submissions, the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) and Singapore Land Authority (SLA) chose 10 winners.
“We are very excited by the ideas received from the competition. Because these ideas give us a better sense of the wide range of possibilities for the Power District,” said Mr Wong.
The concepts from the winning proposals will be combined into a brief, he added.
Developers will give feedback on the brief in a Request for Information exercise, also launched on Monday.
WINNING PROPOSALS
Held from April to June 2019, the competition allowed participants to submit ideas under two topics: The first, a master plan for the whole Power District; the second, ways to re-purpose Power Station A.
The 15-hectare Power District comprises two decommissioned power plants A and B, oil and gas tanks, and additional buildings such as a pump house and a staff apartment block.
Merging Scapes is a project by four Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) students. (Photo: Hendrinko Teguh Sangkanparan, Nur Fadhilah Binte Nordin, Sally Tan, Lun Ci Min)
“There were many good ideas … some suggested converting this into a mixed-use district, hotel, events venue, gallery space, indoor park, an urban farm, a theme park, co-working space, space for creative industries,” said Mr Wong.
Winners of both topics fell into two categories – a tertiary category for students, and an open or professional category for others.
Four Masters students won first in the tertiary category for topic one, proposing to integrate a closed-circuit water system with a mixed-used residential and cultural space for the entire district.
“(Our design) ties into Singapore’s initial struggle with water,” said Ms Nur Fadhilah Binte Nordin, 22.
Re:interpret & Re:generate proposes the use of shipping containers to build two towers. (Photo: Swee Yew Yong, Dang Bao Bao, Stephen Shen Yi Zhe)
A group of architects won a special mention in the professional category in topic two for their plan to redevelop Power Station A. Their proposal involves building two towers out of old shipping containers on top of where the power plant’s chimneys used to be.
One tower will be used as a hotel, while the other will be used for artists-in-residence.
The group wanted to recreate the chimneys, as it is “what makes a power station a power station”, said Mr Stephan Shen, 27.
The project also celebrates the history and heritage of the power stations, added Mr Swee Yew Yong, 27.
“Redevelopment for Singapore does not mean having to tear down or demolish all our old buildings,” said Mr Wong.
“Here, we can keep these historical buildings and give the old power stations a new lease of life.”
More information on the Request for Information exercise can be found at URA’s website.
